The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The god who exacts the last drop of blood from his Son so that his just anger, evoked by sin, may be… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
* Recognize that God is with you. * Acknowledge God knows what He's doing. * Search for God's will: the path He… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity—that he loves you in… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“In a moment of naked honesty, ask yourself, 'Do I wholeheartedly trust that God likes me'... in this moment, right now, right… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“It is not objective proof of God’s existence that we want but the experience of God’s presence. That is the miracle we are really… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
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